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Friday, October 17, 2014

Sawyer Bennett's Alex Blog Tour (+Giveaway)

Blurb:

USA
Today bestselling author Sawyer Bennett scores big-time with the first novel in
a sexy new series hot enough to melt the ice.

Hockey star
Alexander Crossman has a reputation as a cold-hearted player on and off the
rink. Pushed into the sport by an alcoholic father, Alex isn’t afraid to give
fans the proverbial middle finger, relishing his role as the MVP they love to
hate. Management, however, isn’t so amused. Now Alex has a choice: fix his
public image through community service or ride the bench. But Alex refuses to
be molded into the Carolina Cold Fury poster boy . . . not even by a tempting
redhead with killer curves.

As a social worker, Sutton Price is
accustomed to difficult people—like Alex, who’s been assigned to help her
create a drug-abuse awareness program for at-risk youth as part of the team’s
effort to clean up his image. What she doesn’t expect is the arrogant smirk
from his perfect lips to stir her most heated fantasies. But Sutton isn’t one
to cross professional boundaries—and besides, Alex doesn’t do relationships . .
. or does he? The more she sees behind Alex’s bad-boy façade, the more Sutton
craves the man she uncovers.

Excerpt:

"I’m not happy to have to be your
babysitter,” she says and my eyes snap up to hers.

“I’m not
exactly thrilled about it either,” I tell her honestly.

Then she
looks at me, with her head tilted to the side. “So, what’s your deal? Are you
the team’s bad boy or something?”

“Something
like that,” I mutter, not willing to expound on the millions of reasons I’m
sitting here. “Apparently I have a bit of an attitude problem.”

Then Sutton
does something that I don’t think I’ll ever forget as long as I live. She
smiles at me, in a mischievous way, her eyes going more gold than green. She’s
so fucking beautiful in this very moment, my breath actually catches.

“I can deal
with attitude,” she says with a wink. “Makes things interesting.”

I start to
open my mouth—to say what, I don’t know—but then she says, “But seriously, Mr.
Crossman—”

“Alex,” I
say.

“Alex,” she
says with a nod of her head. “If you truly don’t want to do this, I think
you’ll only do more harm than good. We’ll be speaking to kids about drug
addiction. They’ll spot a phony a mile away. They need to believe us. They need
to trust us.”

For the
first time in years—many years—I feel something close to shame creep up the
back of my neck. I’ve been an ass, a prick and an overall schmuck to many, many
people in my life, because I act out my anger and daddy issues toward others.
But never once did I feel shame or even the slightest bit of guilt for my
actions.

The Alex
Crossman who lives in Asshole Land would have come back at her with a snide
remark, followed up with a punch to her self-esteem.

Instead, I
say, “I’m here under protest because they’re making me do this. But given the
opportunity to volunteer for a project like this, I would have done it in a
heartbeat. I may have an attitude problem, Miss Price—”

“Sutton,”
she says with a smile.

“Sutton,” I
acknowledge, “but I do think this is a worthy cause. If I have to do it, you
need to know that I’ll put the effort into it and it will be sincere. I
wouldn’t do anything to fuck a kid over—ever.”

I watch in
amazement as her eyes go warm and soft, and she gives me a humongous smile,
causing my heart to start a mad tripping beat.

That’s an
odd sensation.

“Awesome,”
she says enthusiastically. “Because I have to tell you, I was so excited to get
this project. It’s been my dream to be involved in an outreach program for
at-risk youth, and to be able to do this at such a young age, and with the
power of a professional hockey team behind me—”I tune her
out, not hearing a damn thing she says after that. Instead, I stare at her,
enthralled as I take in her words thrown at me so quickly, because she’s
excited like a kid at Christmas, which makes me focus on her mouth and how
fucking sexy her lips are.

Author Info: USA Today bestselling author Sawyer Bennett is a snarky
Southern woman and reformed trial lawyer who decided to finally start putting
on paper all of the stories that were floating in her head. Her husband works
for a Fortune 100 company which lets him fly all over the world while she stays
at home with their daughter and three big, furry dogs who hog the bed. Sawyer
would like to report she doesn’t have many weaknesses but can be bribed with a
nominal amount of milk chocolate.